Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things, death ...

244 A SERMON.becaufe it were many times more eafie for us oftheMiniftery(I fpeakeout offome experience) to undercakebyGods h\c{\ing{c £ter/.< parfi>f^, as theyfiy)rhe driving of an impure wretched drunkard,from his beaftly and fwinidi fin, which would be avery hard taske, then to draw fuch as delight in,and dote upon thefe miferable fooleries, from theabhorred vanity of ftrange fafhions : nay, andthough fometimes they would be thought to looktowards religion.And thus I have done with the reafons peculiarto every fcverall fort ofgreatnefTc ;thofe which are common to them all.I now come toGreat ones cnej.All the great ones according to the flefh inpfai.24,4. Jiny or tnele kmds; I lay,ye are alias yet deadly e-Mat.5.8. nemies from the very heart-root to the profeflionHeb.i a. I4-^^^ pradifc ofthe holy men, without which holinefiTcwe cannot fqe Go D : you cannot indure toGood Puritans be Called puritaus; much IcfTe to become fuch.-and«CfS'i«"cf i yet without purity, none lliall ever fee the face ofb K«, p>«c God with comfort.^x^rr^rnt, ^ Miltakeme not. I meane L> h r i s t s ygM^otyxX^IVt^tL Ch R I s T s puritans,and no other, » i^/^^.j.S.b lohnY>«i' Aste'Miica I ^.11.and c 15,3.up.i.pag.isi. Secondly, I meane onely fuch as BellarmimL^intimates,when hecals King Jam e s puritan : for,hefo calls him, faith D. Harkmt againfl Carrkr,becaufe in tl^ firft bookeofhis BafdiconDoron^ hesffirmesjthat the religion proftfTedln Scotland wasgrounded upon the plaine words of the Scripture :And againein his fecondbook, that the reformationof Religion in Scotland was extraordinarilywrought